Re: (erielack) SE98

[bob gillis <robertgillis_@_verizon.net>]

Christopher Thurner wrote:

>Listers:
>
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>
>In Lou Schultheis photo of SE98:
>(http://lists.elhts.org/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-10-29-05/Freight_cars_Tra
>in_SE-98-Tobyhanna_PA_-_1973_-_Lou_Schultheis.jpg
>
>this is the one with the three tank cars), you see the crossover from one
>track to another.  Leading up to the switch on the crossover from the right,
>there is a pipe that appears to go to switch machine.  Can anyone tells us
>(or provide reasonable informed speculation) as to what this was for?  
>
> 
>
>Was the switch pneumatically operated and this is an air line?  Or was it
>electric and this is conduit for the electric line?
>
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>
>Also, what is the large piece of steel on the outside of the rail with the
>angled side?  Is it protecting something (e.g. the switch machine)?  Or is
>it to reinforce the rail and keep its position true relative to the ties
>(i.e. to offset the forces of the cars rolling over the switch from the
>other track to keep the rail perpendicular to the surface of the ties and
>the track in gauge)
>

It is the cover for the switch heater.

bob gillis





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